Places byorgason Wants to Go

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

A fully functional, commercial, miniature art gallery.

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

An abandoned sawmill from more than 134 years ago stands testament to the ambition of one man.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

This alpine statue of Jesus in Silverton is said to protect both miners and local economies.

Let Ouray’s tallest waterfall sweep your breath away on a dealer’s choice of scenic hikes.

Hike to the decaying remains of a dream house with a spectacular view.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.